Letter from Munich – 093

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18 October 2002

Dear Mr. Graf, dear friends,

Last week Jean-Paul had read the following paragraph from Daniel Steiner’s sworn statement of 13 February 2000: “I saw Diana playing with her younger brother Joseph by the mushroom-shaped fountain in the shallow pool. I know where both of them had been lying, in the large open space. I saw Ronny Kunte, Kai Blescheke and Mai Hauke walking around Joseph, watching him. I know Ronny Kunte owns a stun gun. That day Kai Bleschke, Ronny Kunte and Maik Hauke said, ‘We hate that shit-foreigner.’ They meant Joseph. They didn’t talk about Diana. They left me and went toward Joseph . . . .”

This week he continued reading the sworn statement to us: “I got some French fries and ate them.

“Ronny Siebert was sitting on the bench in front of the shallow pool. A short time later my friend Ricco Kaiser came and said: ‘Somebody’s lying under the water.’ We both ran to the place. I saw Joseph lying at the bottom, on the long side of the deep pool, a few meters from the corner. He was lying face down on the bottom. He didn’t have anything in his hands. Standing there were Ronny Kunte, Mark Hauke, Kai Bleschke, Andre Mertins, Holger Ellmer (Frau Ellmer’s brother, who works for the German Border Patrol), Romy Richter, Steffie Schamatzinat, Herr Günter Winkler (Rosenstrasse 7), Fraulein Lustig (the daughter of Herr Lustig, who is a professional expert in court cases), and the youngest daughter of Herr Schneider, who has a red birthmark on her face. While we were standing there, Frau Goebel came up slowly.

“I, Daniel Steiner, together with another boy about sixteen years old, pulled Joseph out.

“Ronny Kunte, Kai Bleschke and Maik Hauke just stood around, without helping. It isn’t true what was written in the Saechsische Zeitung (newspaper), that Kai Bleschke, Ronny Kunte and Rene Grossman pulled Joseph out.

“Frau Goebel came up and just stood around. Later Herr Goldschmidt came up on his bicycle. He leaned the bicycle on the outer wall of the control room where the computer is and came slowly over to us. Joseph had lain on the edge of the pool for about five or ten minutes before Herr Goldschmidt came by. It took about twenty minutes for the ambulance to arrive.

“Several persons gave Joseph artificial respiration. When they tried to revive him, something brown-colored came from Joseph’s mouth. I saw Maik Hauke hanging around the wooden landing near the deep pool for a long time.

Since many recipients of this letter may read German more easily than they read English, the following is the author’s own translation of the above letter. Please note that word-processing programs outside of German-speaking countries may not display all of the letters of the German alphabet correctly.